Why Labor Works for Money While Capital Works for Itself
A tale of two feedback loops: one for wages and one for wealth.
I hear it all the time.
A friend of mine, a very smart guy who runs operations at a successful company, said it perfectly. “Matt, how can the inflation be so low when the assets I actually need to live, housing, education for my kids, healthcare, feel like 1000x?”
He’s not wrong.
That feeling is real.
You work hard. You get a raise. You save your money. Yet, you feel like you’re on a treadmill. The finish line (real, secure wealth) keeps moving further away. You see headlines about the stock market hitting new highs, about billionaires minting new billions, and you (if you are lucky) look at your own 401(k) and home equity. It just doesn’t add up.
Perhaps you don’t even have a retirement account or own your home.
This disconnect is not in your head. It’s the single most important economic reality of our time.
The problem is that you’re being told there is one economy. There are not. There are two.
There is the Labor Economy. And there is the Capital Economy.
Most people live their entire live…
